Sunil Gavaskar calls Gautam Gambhir fans 'Foot-Lickers'; Credits Rohit Sharma for India's aggressive approach

Sunil Gavaskar coined the word “Gohit” as a tribute to Rohit Sharma for imbibing the aggressive approach in the Indian team.

Legendary Indian batsman and now commentator Sunil Gavaskar has credited only current captain Rohit Sharma for the aggressive approach India have been playing with across the three formats.

The Kanpur test against Bangladesh showed and embodied all of the qualities that Rohit has and has brought to the team as a leader. Despite more than two days being lost in the test match due to rain and a wet outfield, India managed to get a result in their favour, courtesy of aggressive batting and captaincy from Rohit.

This resulted in a lot of praise for both Rohit as well as new head coach Gaumtam Gambhir, with some fans journalists and even ex-cricketers using the term “Gamball,” taking a cue from England’s “Bazball” approach, named after their coach Brendon McCullum.

Gambhir has only been coaching for a couple of months: Sunil Gavaskar

However, Gavaskar is against the usage of this word. He called out the “foot-lickers” of Gambhir by pointing out that Rohit has imbibed this new culture in the Indian team over the last couple of years while Gambhir joined the team as the coach recently.

Writing in his column for Hindustan Times, Gavaskar wrote, “Some from the old powers referred to it as “Gamball” after the Indian coach, Gautam Gambhir. While the England batting approach changed completely under the new regime of Ben Stokes and McCullum, we have seen over the last couple of years that Rohit has been batting like this and encouraging his team to do so as well.

“Gambhir has only been coaching for a couple of months, so attributing this approach to him is foot-licking of the highest quality. Gambhir himself hardly ever batted in this fashion like McCullum used to do. If any credit is due, it is solely to Rohit and nobody else.”

Gavaskar added, “Instead of using the words this-ball or that-ball, I would suggest using the skipper’s first name, Rohit, and term it the “Gohit” approach.”

India’s next test series is against New Zealand at home, starting on October 16.

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